Reunited

I read this over 12 months ago and so am counting it again. It is a lovely book of early love that was interfered with and the H went away, returning nine years later days before the h wedding (for she had settled for second best).
Excellent chemisty.

Eight years ago Marianne Conway and Logan Tate were engaged for a matter of weeks before she flung his ring back in his face when he accused her of just wanting to brag to her friends about being engaged (v. strange as she was actually keeping secret) and because she had been told by his brother Moss that he considered her babyish.

Eight years ago 16yo Rosalind Prescott was quite brutal in her rejection of Slade Anderson, an 18yo awkward boy who loved her with stalker like devotion. The intensity of emotion scared Rosa who was a shameless flirt at that age. Now 24, Rosa lives with her widowed brother and works as a personnel officer in his computer consultancy - and still has no idea how to let guys down easy.

For four years now Ellen Craig has lived apart from her husband, in Canada, working as a television personality and raising their son Rowan. She and Dermid are separated not just legally but by the entire Atlantic ocean as he lives and works in Scotland, and does not visit.

Eight years ago, Jess Mallory was 16 and hoping her family, biologist Max Mallory and actress Clarissa Evans, would be strengthened by a summer together in Santa Barbara. But then Ben Standish came along to do an article on her father...and despite his mutual attraction to Jess, ended up running away with her mother.

Holly Weston and Nick Falconer married young – too young for Holly to realize what living with her parents and being under her father's thumb was doing to Nick. And so after a huge fight during which Nick raped her, they split.

Maggie Rafferty is happily divorced, living with her son Mike and being chronically late getting him to baseball practice, where the hunky new coach has caught her eye. But then her ex-husband Wade shows up in Washington preempting her son's annual visit to see him, and announces that he's getting re-married—within the month!

Lissa Grant was traumatized as a teen when her father and future brother in law found her making out with a boy at a party and labeled her a slut and worst and packed her off to boarding school until she was an adult.

Courtney Lincoln's life changed drastically 3 years ago when her father had a stroke after his partner was arrested for embezzlement following a huge fight with the man who had just begun Courtney's sexual awakening.

Stephanie Stuart is quite happy with life, living in an apartment she rents from her brother and his wife, working at a hotel, and practically engaged to a very nice heart surgeon. But a chance glimpse of Gerard Tenniel changes that.